- Studied acting with Javier Torre.
- Studied acting at Mike Nichols at New Actors Workshop in New York.
- Studied drama with Julio Baccaro and Oscar Orest in Buenos Aires.
- Studied screenwriting with Terry Borst at UCLA.
- Survived a lightning strike while working in a tannery in Buenos Aires. It left him unconscious for about forty minutes but otherwise he was uninjured. (1991)
- Met his father for the first time, and seven other half-brothers/sisters he didn't know he had, by chance at a shopping mall in Buenos Aires. (1994)
- Started working at a butcher shop at 11. He later worked as a glue-boy at night, sticking anti-de-facto-government pamphlets during the last years of the military dictatorship, and at a clandestine chemical factory making industrial detergent when he was 13.
- Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, of Sicilian, Gypsy, Spanish and Syrian descent.
- Before full time professional acting, he was Director of Global Supply Chain Management at Paccess (a Nike Inc. strategic partner based in Portland, Oregon) and was in charge of creating and managing a USD300 mill global raw material distribution and quality consolidation program exclusively designed and implemented for the aforementioned sports brand.
- Trained at the Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA and at Michael Howard Studios in New York.
- He has been seen in numerous TV and editorial campaigns for Samsung, Heineken - directed by Christopher Doyle - McDonalds, Cup Noodles and Ferrero Rocher, among others.
- He was the face for Samsung's worldwide "Discovery" campaign, directed by Wayne Peng. (2000)
- He taught himself English.
- Did his own stunts for his fighting scene with Jackie Chan in The Medallion (2003)
- Produced the acclaimed Hong Kong premiere of Glengarry Glen Ross in March 2003.
- He is the founder of Hong Kong based theater company Big Bad & Below, along with members Abraham Boyd, Chris Kyme, Duc Luu, Matthew Sturgess, Howard Paley, and Neil Art.
- Did the all facial and character motions for the roles (included lead characters Agent Sam Fisher and villain Sadono) in the Ubi Soft Entertainment's 3D video game sequel_Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (2004) (VG)_ at Centro Digital Pictures Ltd. studios in Hong Kong and directed by 'Florent Siri'. (2003)
- Speaks English, Spanish and Italian.
- After living a couple of years in New York, he moved to Hong Kong where he lived for 10 years before moving to Los Angeles. He moved to LA in May 2004.
- Although he was born and baptized as a Catholic, he refused practicing since an early age and publicly rejects all dogmatic religions, including the one he was born under.
- He is of mixed ethnic and religious background. Catholics from Italy and Syrian Muslims from Damascus from his father side, and Spanish and Gypsies (South of Spain) from his mother side. His paternal grandfather was an Imam who married a Catholic from Calabria when they met in Argentina.
- He never met any of his maternal or paternal grandparents neither direct family members or relatives with the exception of his father, whom he met only when he was 26, and of course his mother whom he grew up with for the most part till he left home in his teens.
- Almost got shot and killed by real cops during the filming of "The Suicide" where he plays a methamphetamine addict who holds up an entire diner with another robber. Cops saw him on the street right before entering the diner and thinking it was for real, jumped out of the car and pulled their guns out, pointing and ready to shoot. The director and members of crew came out from the diner (where the interior shoot would take place) to stop the cops from shooting.
- Became an American Citizen in 2010.
- Playing Claudio in Shakespeare's "Measure For Measure" in Hollywood. (June 2005)
- Playing Juan in the premiere of "Miracle" at the Egyptian Arena in Hollywood for Noah Wyle's Blank Theatre Company. (June 2006)
- Playing Gino in "Holy Water" at the Avery Schreiber Theatre in Los Angeles. (November 2005)
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